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Bowels Opened
Bowels opened, or, A discovery of the near and deer love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every believing soul Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixth chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his own pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he entrusted with the publishing of his works.Bovvels opened, or, A discovery of the neere and deere love, union and communion betwixt Christ and the Church, and consequently betwixt Him and every beleeving soule Delivered in divers sermons on the fourth fifth and sixt chapters of the Canticles. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, Doctor Sibs, late preacher unto the honourable societie of Grayes Inne, and Master of Katharine Hall in Cambridge. Being in part finished by his owne pen in his life time, and the rest of them perused and corrected by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
Sermon 14: THE FOURTEENTH SERMON.Sermon 14: THE FOVRTEENTH SERMON.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This should teach us what to judge of the Church and people of God,1 even under their seeming disgraces,2 yet to judge of them as the excellentest people in the world, Psalm. 16. All my delight is in those that are excellent: to join our selves to them: especially this is here to be understood of the Church as it is the mystical body of Christ, not as a mixed body, as a visible Church,3 but as it is the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
This should teach us what to judge of the Church and people of God,1 even under their seeming disgraces,2 yet to judge of them as the excellentest people in the world, Psalm. 16. All my delight is in those that are excellent: to joyne our selves to them: especially this is here to be understood of the Church as it is the mysticall body of Christ, not as a mixed body, as a visible Church,3 but as it is the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
- 1Use.Vse.
- 2What to judge of the Church and Gods people under seeming disgraces.
- 3Heb. 12. 22.